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Monthly Archives: December 2018

In a wicked culmination of numerous genres, Disconnect presents their newest five track offering Tragic Doom. Sewing together the likes of death metal, black metal, doom and some elements of sludge, Disconnect offers up an eclectic and unique sound. Through each of the five tracks that are present here you are greeted by every genre; not just one, not two, but every genre that Disconnect utilizes. As chaotic as that may sound, Disconnect sew each genre together wonderfully to create a cohesive and multi layered sound.

Once you feel as though you have a track figured out, Disconnect switches gears guiding you down a completely different path. These heathens switch seamlessly from genre to genre, forever contorting them to how they see fit. From pushing you forth toward the throes of death to dragging you asunder to the darkened abyss with doom and striking all the way back to venomous black metal, Disconnect deploys it all to create a sonic assault that is undeniable. Disconnect molds and shapes each track in such a way where each genre that they dabble in has a place in their cacophony of metallic noise.

Tragic Doom is a multi layered and multifaceted release, never to greet you with the same sounds twice as it ushers you through a complete labyrinth of sounds one minute after the next. This EP guides your mind through ever winding and twisting darkened corridors through each track and through each minute. Never once does Disconnect give you time to reflect on what you just heard as they are already ushering forth a new and unique sound.

It is easy to get wrapped up within this offering as it takes you on quite the sonic journey. From beginning to end you get wrapped up in the ever mesmerizing maze of sounds. Disconnect weaves in and out of genres with ease as they take you on break neck journeys with black and death metal, only to slow things down to a murky devilish crawl with their doom and sludge elements. Every now and then they break to present you with clean vocals and near serene sounds only to drag you back in to their ever punishing and wicked tone.

Tragic Doom is a cynical and dark EP, one that doesn’t take too much time to get you acquainted with its overall unique and forever shape shifting tone. Each track is a dark enchantment of black metal, doom, death, sludge and more to provide you with something truly striking and different. Overall, Tragic Doom is a very solid release through and through. Disconnect plays around and experiments with things that may not have been heard in their previous releases, and it all works so well.

With their overall sound rooted in the crypts of old-school death metal, Philly based brutalizers Basilysk add their own progressive twists to the ancient sound to create a unique and ever shape shifting and twisting sound. Each track within their upcoming offering Emergence is an unrelenting brutal assault of asphyxiating death metal that is just hard to deny. Emergence as a whole is a wonderfully crafted and executed record, one that is sharp all the way through, never to be lacking in any way or form. From beginning to end you are treated to a devilish and whiplash inducing listen, one that is unholy and unforgiving.

Emergence is vicious and flesh gnashing from the onset, never to gift you with more than a couple of minutes of solace. Each track is a furious and deadly offering as they cut deep through flesh straight down to the bone. With an ever caustic and venomous sound, Basilysk pushes forth from track to track to greet you with nothing but shredding sonic death.

Within each track, Basilysk continues to push the envelope as you can never expect each track within this release to sound the same as it did just a minute ago. Among their roots of death metal are progressive tendencies that throw you for loops and twists that send you careening toward oblivion. Each track is forever twisting and shape shifting in to different forms, forever showing you different faces of death.

With lengthier run times throughout, Basilysk gives plenty of time for each track to breathe and wander in numerous directions which makes each track unique and diverse. Never once are you to hear the same sound come out of this record twice as Basilysk does a great job of switching everything up through each offering gifting you with plenty of diversity and variety throughout. Each track is as complex as it gets, leading you through a labyrinth of sounds throughout.

Overall, Emergence is a great record through and through. You are treated to great technicality, great song writing, excellent musicianship, vocals and more. This is a treat of a record, one that you will keep coming back to for more death metal punishment.

In one of the most expansive, enveloping and mesmerizing black metal releases this year, Fornace creates an incredibly wicked, forlorn, hypnotic and incredibly atmospheric sound that is hard to shake. Through their newest full length Deep Melancholic Wrath, you are greeted by six all encompassing tracks that drag you in to their icy and ever frigid soundscapes minute by minute. This is pure, raw black metal to the nth degree. No gimmicks are needed here, no fads, no fluff, nothing of the sort as Deep Melancholic Wrath is pure black metal through and through. Through six incredible tracks you are treated to one hell of a listen that grips you from beginning to end, never letting your attention waver as you slowly become enveloped in the ever blackened and iced over abyss that Fornace creates.

Each track within this offering are vast and lengthy labyrinths bone cutting and soul tearing blackened metal. Before you know it you become lost within this release as Fornace captures your mind and has it wander through each of their expansive tracks. Through each offering you are faced with unexpected turns and ever twisting, haunting and isolating melodies.

These are ever isolating tracks that thrust you in to the throes of despair and melancholy, forever freezing your soul and reaching in to the darkest recesses of your bitter mind. Each of the six tracks that are present here are cutting and wicked as they make you feel uncomfortable as you begin your disparaging descent in to loneliness and madness.

Deep Melancholic Wrath is a record that is injected with pure black metal savagery that is coupled with atmospheres that are riddled with hopelessness and forlorn feelings. Each offering is just as potent and unforgiving as the rest making the entire record something to behold. Among the pummeling and soul cleaving blackened assault is a frozen and immense atmosphere that wraps you up in a dismal and darkened fog never for you to find your way out.

This record is damn near perfect and one of the best black metal offerings the genre has to offer this year. Fornace has created something here that is truly incredible, without gimmick, without fads, this is purely about the music and purely black metal. Every aspect of this record is done perfectly to create an overall incredibly impressive record. I may not have done this record justice, but this is an offering that cannot be passed up and should not be over looked as Fornace has created something of a masterpiece here with Deep Melancholic Wrath.

To stoke the flames for their release, Hiss From The Moat has unleashed a lyric video for the title track. This track is wicked and incredibly savage. Without hesitation, Hiss From The Moat sets in with bone cracking blast beats that are coupled with scythe like riffs and monstrous growls. This follows through the entire offering making this to be an incredibly devilish and flesh tearing track. This is just a taste of what is left to come, and if this is any indication, The Harrier is going to be one hell of a record.

Since their inception in 2009, face melters Inferno have been busy ushering forth their aggressive thrashing mad sound. In 2014 these heathens unleashed an EP titled Arrodillate, and less than three years later they put forth their debut full length Human Genetics. Now we fast forward to the present where Inferno is on the verge of releasing their sophomore record Basado En Hechos Reales. In short order, Inferno has released three top notch offerings, each better than the last and that sentiment holds true for this release as well. Packed with ten ripping tracks, Basado En Hechos Reales doesn’t disappoint. From start to finish you are subjected to complete thrash debauchery.

Basado En Hechos Reales is an in your face, no holds barred kind of thrash record that shreds from beginning to end without reprieve. Each track rolls straight in to the next never giving your neck a rest even though it only holds on by a thread. Not one track takes time off or relents as each one is a bombastic force of thrashing madness. Through each cut you will find nothing but pure, blunt force thrash metal that feeds in to your madness. Complete with scorching solos and jet propulsed drumming, Basado En Hechos Reales is an explosive and head caving offering.

Each offering runs around the three to three and a half minute mark making each track to be a blitzkrieg of sonic metal. These are punchy and ever head banging offerings that get your neck cranking from the first few seconds onward. Inferno marches forth with the intent to have you mash your brain against your skull, never ceasing as they bulldoze from track to tack.

Through this release, Inferno creates a savage and explosive sound that is hard not to like. This is thrash in its pure form as nothing else is added here to mess with the overall raw and energetic sound of thrash. Basado En Hechos Reales is undeniably potent as it is turbo charged and ready to rip your face from your skull. From the onset you become enveloped in the thrashing chaos that Inferno sets forth, forever getting you to head bang no matter how many times you listen. Basado En Hechos Reales is a solid and infectious record to say the least.

Basado En Hechos Reales will be released January 23, 2019 through Necromance Records.

Check out the official lyric video for Apriétate El Bozal from the upcoming record below!

Crusty, disgusting, primitive, crushing and many more descriptors can be used to describe Kriegszittern and their newest offering Yellow Cross. Combining punk, death metal and smatterings of black metal, Kriegszittern unleash a foul beast. Within the offal covered walls of this release, you are to find ten vile tracks that are just as primitive and beastial as you could imagine. With straight forward punishing riffs, barbaric blasting drumming and disgusting blood drenched gutturals, Kriegszittern creates an overall grimy and nasty sound that gnashes at your flesh.

Kriegszittern’s style of gruesome death is straight forward and stripped down to the bare bones. There aren’t any frills or gimmicks here in their overall sound as Kriegszittern keeps things mold covered and ancient in sound. Through ten tracks you are presented with a primeval and raw sound, and as straight forward as each track is, they are just as terrorizing and blood draining. From front to back, Kriegszittern provides you with menacing punk riddled death metal that only aims to desecrate and destroy.

As a whole, Yellow Cross is as in your face as it can possibly get. From the onset Kriegszittern hits you with ceaseless barrage of blood soaked tunes one right after another. Once you press play, there is no stopping the slaughtering as these fiends barrel forth from track to track burying you under droves of sickening metal, never giving you enough reprieve. Each of the ten gnarled tracks that are harbored within this title are ceaseless monsters that storm forth with pure malice and malevolence, never once stopping to look back on all the destruction.

Yellow Cross is an all out death addled frenzy from beginning to end, never relenting as it ushers forth track after track of blood curdling death. Overall, this record is a solid entrails soaked slab of savage death from start to finish.

Deathgrind/punk stalwarts Deathgrave have unleashed a brand new video for their title track. The nightmare fuel video is great and adds even more punch to a track that is already brain bashing. Check out the official video for So Real, It’s Now below!

Proclaiming themselves as “bestial deathcult warfare” metal, Devouror rise from the flames of hell to grace us with a truly sordid and terrorizing EP titled Slay For Satan. The make up of this band as twenty-five years of experience, all raising the shredded banner of blackened death and that expertise shows here through each of the four tracks that are harbored within this title. Slay For Satan is a maddening and ever blood letting offering as each track is just as sinister and potent as the last, ever ripping your flesh from bone and draining your bones of marrow. Each track is a wicked and venomous offering never relenting and never giving you enough breathing room, forever suffocating you under the blackened flames of Satan.

From beginning to end, Slay For Satan is a chaotic skull smashing effort, pouring forth track after track of death and disease ridden metal. From the ever bone cutting riffs to the blasting tumultuous drumming to the hellish vocals, Devouror provides you with a bleeding raw and overall flesh gnashing sound. This EP is ceaseless in its assault, ever pummeling and ripping your soul to shreds only to send you to the pits of hell.

Slay For Satan begins with a nightmarish intro to kick the first track off before diving straight in to the bleeding meat of the EP. Devouror sets the blasphemous and destructive tone early, only to keep pushing forth gifting you with an entirely life threatening listen. Through and through, Slay For Satan is a gnarled and twisted release, one that dishes out some of the most hellish, skull bashing metal.

Each blackened track seems to do its best to tear the heavens asunder, sending them to eternal damnation and torment. These cuts are savage offerings of barbaric blackened warfare that tear you apart limb from limb. No frills, no fluff and no gimmicks are to be found here as these purveyors of death greet you with nothing but debauchery, death and hell fire baptized metal. Overall, Slay For Satan is a great EP, one that provides you with four incredibly wicked and well crafted tracks. You cannot go wrong here with this debut EP from these heathens.

Slay For Satan will be released January 21, 2019 through Metal Zone Records.

Emerging from pungent crypts and entrails soaked soil is aptly named Surgery with their new offering Absorbing Roots. Surgery’s style of death firmly roots itself in the vein of the old, taking a raw and resurrected sound and cleaning it up a bit while adding their own spin on it. Through nine tracks Surgery presents you with raw and rotting death metal through and through. There isn’t anything within these offerings that taint Surgery’s overall death metal torture as what you get is pure vein bleeding death metal from track one to track nine.

No filler is needed here as Surgery steamrolls from one track to the next gifting you with one bleeding offering one right after another without so much as a little breathing room in between. Each track is pretty straight forward death metal as you are hit with rotting riffs and ever pummeling drumming that are only to be backed by bleeding zombie like vocals. While Absorbing Roots isn’t a release that is breaking new ground, it isn’t trying to nor does it have to. This record follows in the footsteps of its death metal forefathers as it brings to you sickening death metal one track after another with disregard to aesthetic and trends.

Through and through, you are treated to nine solid tracks that are rolled out to provide you with a thorough bludgeoning. Each offering is a bloody and fiendish one as they provide you with a filthy and grime laden sound. This is pure death and nothing but, and once you press play you get that tepid whiff of warm rot that makes you wretch. These are grotesque offering that aim to gut and maim and leave you to the crows.

Absorbing Roots is a solid record through and through as it shows off nine tracks of deadly yet melodic death metal for your twisted enjoyment. Through each of the nine offerings you are greeted with solid musicianship, sinister vocals and plenty of melody to get your head banging. Overall, this is a pretty standard death metal record that pumps nine solid cuts through its veins that gets your head banging for sure.

Hailing from Bangalore, India are tech death monsters Nihilus. Next year in February they are slated to drop their record Borealis, but for now we have their first single Splitting Atoms. This track has much to do with the atrocities of war and of course the devastation of atom bombs. Within this track you are treated to technical pin point riffs that are supplemented by ever somersaulting drumming and throat shredding vocals. And while this is tech death, it isn’t over technical to the point where it is migraine inducing. This is technical, but melodic and well constructed providing you with a neck cranking overall solid track. Splitting Atoms is a nice taste of what we can come to expect from the rest of the record once it does drop, but for now we have this explosive offering.